Update 4.9.6 | Website got too slow!

Slowness issue you are reporting is specific to your site, has nothing to do with the WP core.

Slowness/high CPU usage could be due to (but not limited to):
– A poor or memory intensive theme. Switch to the WordPress default theme and test loading time and see if you see a difference. If you do, may be your theme can be re-written to be more efficient.
– Poor or memory intensive plugins. One by one disable plugins and test loading time and see if you see a difference. If you do, may be that plugin can be re-written to be more efficient.
– your server is slow (e.g., “process hang”, overload, you get a lot of visitors, other problems, etc.); generally, every inexpensive host out there is slow.
– I don’t know if you use CloudFlare or not but if you do I would suggest deactivating it and seeing if it helps. Also sometimes a good purge of the cache on CloudFlare can help.
– Lots of images can cause slowness. Also images loaded without compression.
– Lots of external content (facebook/ gravatar/ google adds, etc.) and redirects in general tends to slow sites down.

Here’s a couple of links that might give you some ideas on how to better deal with this:
* https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/troubleshooting-a-slow-site/
* https://woocommerce.com/2016/03/woocommerce-speed-first-steps/

Use plugins to optmize/speed up sites. For example: Autoptimize or WP Super Cache , etc

Use Jetpack’s Photon option to speed up image delivery. Also see this tutorial: https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/speed-wordpress-save-images-optimized-web/

Ueful codex: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/WordPress_Optimization

All that you said I already do.
There are no optimizations my site has not had since its inception.
Coincidentally, the problem started shortly after Update 4.9.6.
I use Vultr’s server, my images are all optimized in tinypng before they are posted, I already use one of the best plugin cache. I also use a cdn. So I can say that it is not any of those problems that you mentioned. And the slowness of the site is internal not external. So I can also say that it is not my theme that I have been using for two years.

We’ve been experiencing a slower site as well, and the website slowed down after the latest wordpress update was done.

Side note to @drlissaj,
please do not jump into other topics. If the troubleshooting already posted made no difference for you, then, as per the Forum Welcome, please post your own topic. A lot more people will see your post this way. That way you stand a good chance of getting the assistance you want. Despite any similarity in symptoms, your issue is likely to be completely different because of possible differences in physical servers, accounts, hosts, plugins, theme, configurations, etc. Thus one problem, on one setup is not indicative of the functionality and reliability of an application as a whole.

hello i was running my site with the same theme for many years and after updating to the last version of Version 4.9.6 my back end and my front end are very slow and i cant work on it so any one have a solutions please tell me, i have a huge news site and a 2.3 GB database and its all optimized.

im using the sahifa theme
thanks

• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by aliomais.

I can’t believe more haven’t complained. I’ve noticed a HUGE slowdown on all of my sites now running 4.9.6. Not just the front ends either, but the admin area is much slower too. Some of these sites haven’t been modded in years and were loading quickly. Not anymore. It’s become a bit of a nightmare really.

Side note to @djc,
please do not jump into other topics. If the troubleshooting already posted made no difference for you, then, as per the Forum Welcome, please post your own topic. A lot more people will see your post this way. That way you stand a good chance of getting the assistance you want. Despite any similarity in symptoms, your issue is likely to be completely different because of possible differences in physical servers, accounts, hosts, plugins, theme, configurations, etc. Thus one problem, on one setup is not indicative of the functionality and reliability of an application as a whole.

I did not jump into another topic, it’s the exact same issue. And no, it’s not specific to our hosting accounts, it’s specific to WordPress 4.9.6.

Side note to @djc,

I’m politely going to ask you again: as per the Forum Welcome, please post your own topic.

I also have the same issue with 4.9.6 (hosting on mediatemple) it happened after the update on each of my site. I get a TTFB between 4000-22000ms. Anyone have any idea what to do?